The one problem i personally can see and have experienced is that you cant find that much information concerning Linux on PPC online. Sure, there are some devoted sites line LinuxPPC.org and others, and groups.google.com is always a nice thing, but if you run into *specific* problems (like me, see further down that post) youre in for some serious pain.
I tried several times to put a usable linux distro on my old powermac 4400 (upgraded w/ a G3 procesor card, a voodoo3 2000 and a realtek-chip-based ethernet card).
Xfree will crash at startup, which can be only solved by going online, grabbing some drivers and compiling them into the kernel, which kind of sucks for a newbie - but thats not the point because I can't get online because the ethernet card is not recocnized even if I choose the realtek drivers.
So I did some google research, came up with the mentioned solution for XFree, but not for the ethernet problem.
Another point is that noone in your neighborhood can help because LinuxPPC is not as common as Linux for i386.
I'll try darwin next, but since my machine isn`t officially supported I`m not exactly optimistic about that.
Its the Virtual Game Station, which was an impressive piece of software, imho.
They stopped selling it this June, but are however working on a playstation 2 emulator.
I dont know about XBox-Emulation, but judging from their experience with Console Emulation and Virtual PC, im pretty sure they could do it.
In corporations, the IT department usually has a master key so that even when the employee leaves, the company can still retrieve the data. What about this fingerprint-recognition system?
..looking at the pics, reading text phrases like "Available in two sizes - small/medium or large - for optimal ergonomic fit" and the "Vertical Grips"-bla etc., i thought you link to some kind of pr0n-Shop
..Warcraft Adventures ?
After WC 2 came out, there was a game called "warcraft adventures" in development at blizzard; there was a lot of marketing hype around, too (of course). The basic idea was to create an "interactive adventure" in the warcraft universe. It should have had a kind of "comic look and feel", as all characters + the gaming environment looked comic style (no polygons inside).
It was silently axed some time later, cant remember the reason though.
Maybe they couldnt get over that, because basically its the same idea transferred to todays standards (3D, MMORPG).
now if i'm a web media streaming company and i have to decide to go MS or REAL - who do you think i'm going to go with? the server that has a player on just about EVERY desktop, or the server that my listeners have to download the player? that's not a difficult decision!
Well, actually you could get the open source Darwin Streaming Server in various flavors (OS X Server, FreeBSD, Red Hat, Solaris, NT / Win2000) at no cost. Source Code is available too.
So you could stream quicktime content, and quicktime isnt that bad (visually, compression-wise etc.).
- deepening the pipeline to get more MHz (while screwing up performance) to use in marketing campaigns
or
- giving the product another (read: better sounding, but maybe misleading) name. At least Athlons *are* better (at the moment)then P4s. BTW, Motorola just renamed the upcoming G5 from "7500" to "8500" some days ago.
*LOL* !
Ive been there (Schauburg) yesterday, too !
reading about 2001 on slashdot after seeing the film 1 day ago is quite funny, but reading about another slashdot reader in the same film, same cinema, same (quite small) town, same day is quite shocking. hehe.
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The one problem i personally can see and have experienced is that you cant find that much information concerning Linux on PPC online. Sure, there are some devoted sites line LinuxPPC.org and others, and groups.google.com is always a nice thing, but if you run into *specific* problems (like me, see further down that post) youre in for some serious pain.
I tried several times to put a usable linux distro on my old powermac 4400 (upgraded w/ a G3 procesor card, a voodoo3 2000 and a realtek-chip-based ethernet card).
Xfree will crash at startup, which can be only solved by going online, grabbing some drivers and compiling them into the kernel, which kind of sucks for a newbie - but thats not the point because I can't get online because the ethernet card is not recocnized even if I choose the realtek drivers.
So I did some google research, came up with the mentioned solution for XFree, but not for the ethernet problem.
Another point is that noone in your neighborhood can help because LinuxPPC is not as common as Linux for i386.
I'll try darwin next, but since my machine isn`t officially supported I`m not exactly optimistic about that.
Its the Virtual Game Station, which was an impressive piece of software, imho.
They stopped selling it this June, but are however working on a playstation 2 emulator.
I dont know about XBox-Emulation, but judging from their experience with Console Emulation and Virtual PC, im pretty sure they could do it.
Ive just been there with OmniWeb under Mac OS X.
No Problem at all.
You leave. Your finger stays.
Which btw could evolve into a real problem after you switched your job the 5th time.
In corporations, the IT department usually has a master key so that even when the employee leaves, the company can still retrieve the data. What about this fingerprint-recognition system?
You leave. Your finger stays.
adding a bigger Harddrive to your iBook (dual USB): heres the URL [mac.com]
adding a bigger HD to your TiBook: Here [xlr8yourmac.com]
overclocking the iBook (dual USB) to 600 MHz and 100 MHz system bus: Here [xlr8yourmac.com]
note that especially the iBook upgrades arent exactly easy to do. LOTS of parts and screws.
..looking at the pics, reading text phrases like "Available in two sizes - small/medium or large - for optimal ergonomic fit" and the "Vertical Grips"-bla etc., i thought you link to some kind of pr0n-Shop
;)
CNN just brought in the news that kabul is under heavy attack.
Not that i thought GWB would *really* *think* about any other solution. This is one sad day.
Here in Europe theres a quote wich translates like this:
If it doesnt kill you, itll make you harder.
At least your arteries. heh.
..Warcraft Adventures ?
After WC 2 came out, there was a game called "warcraft adventures" in development at blizzard; there was a lot of marketing hype around, too (of course). The basic idea was to create an "interactive adventure" in the warcraft universe. It should have had a kind of "comic look and feel", as all characters + the gaming environment looked comic style (no polygons inside).
It was silently axed some time later, cant remember the reason though.
Maybe they couldnt get over that, because basically its the same idea transferred to todays standards (3D, MMORPG).
now if i'm a web media streaming company and i have to decide to go MS or REAL - who do you think i'm going to go with? the server that has a player on just about EVERY desktop, or the server that my listeners have to download the player? that's not a difficult decision!
Well, actually you could get the open source Darwin Streaming Server in various flavors (OS X Server, FreeBSD, Red Hat, Solaris, NT / Win2000) at no cost. Source Code is available too.
So you could stream quicktime content, and quicktime isnt that bad (visually, compression-wise etc.).
Well, whats the *real* dirty marketing trick:
- deepening the pipeline to get more MHz (while screwing up performance) to use in marketing campaigns
or
- giving the product another (read: better sounding, but maybe misleading) name. At least Athlons *are* better (at the moment)then P4s. BTW, Motorola just renamed the upcoming G5 from "7500" to "8500" some days ago.
*LOL* ! Ive been there (Schauburg) yesterday, too ! reading about 2001 on slashdot after seeing the film 1 day ago is quite funny, but reading about another slashdot reader in the same film, same cinema, same (quite small) town, same day is quite shocking. hehe.